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...additional 3,600 overseas from Beijing to Belgrade) train American youth of every ethnic hue. "Sending a kid to the Army used to be the standard way to teach kids values, discipline, respect for authority, to be a member of a team, get to work on time, brush your teeth, comb your hair, clean your fingernails," says Ed Rensi. "Now, somehow, McDonald's has become the new entry-level job-training institution in America. We find ourselves doing things in that role that we would never imagine we would do." Among them: paying kids to study, rewarding them for staying...
...wanting to know why the store did not stock a particular item, had happened upon Murphy's second-floor office. But instead of a cold corporate brush-off, Murphy beckoned the customer into the president's office for a 15-minutes private meeting...
...ACcused of is good intentions. George Bush imputes good intentions to the antipoverty efforts of the 1960s and '70s as a preface to saying they've backfired. Bush's Republican rival, Patrick Buchanan, then trumps him by pre-emptively tarring any new antipoverty efforts with the same brush. "In the wake of Los Angeles," Buchanan declares, "everyone has a 'solution' to the 'problem.' And these solutions come from earnest and well-intentioned men and women." Officer, stop that man! He's armed with good intentions...
...joined in the mass murder of peasants. The 90 taut minutes strip away layers of secrets and suggest a link between the men's sins -- a dependence on the propensity of bourgeois Americans to look away from ugly facts rather than decry them. A compulsively watchable young actor, Keith Brush, portrays the incest victim grown up into a punky, self-pitying male prostitute...
Usually, she is the one to brush off criticism. "That's the price of success," she says. She knows that the person out front must absorb the most blows. She knows she has to handle the unrealistic expectations and frustrated disappointment of the Palestinian public; if the peace process fails, her $ political future, even she herself, would be in danger. She knows that hard- liners who oppose the negotiations take it out on her. "They try to attack the person, not the issues," she says. She knows a lot of it is envy, from rivals who wonder why they...